(06-08-2020, 12:09 AM)JackCity Wrote: Tear gassing peaceful protesters was a country wide tactic (including Jacksonville) , that's an escalation tactic and also there are literally thousands of videos of police abusing peaceful protesters. Not sure how many you watched but cops were showing up head to toe in gear to meet with peaceful protestors (again an escalation tactic). 

unfortunately it's a job where you can't afford to have anything but the highest standards. sure you need people who are prepared to be physical but needs be, but that is useless without control, which is why so many cops beat their wives relative to normal humans. As Chris Rock says some jobs you can't afford "bad apples", cops can't afford to just let anyone in and remain despite a litany of errors.

I can’t speak about every instance because that would take all day. 

Showing up in riot get isn’t the police escalating it. It’s a response to behavior. These cities didn’t pull out the riot gear until everything went to [BLEEP]. Sure, they showed up a few times when it wasn’t needed, but you can’t show up with riot gear AFTER the riot.

You can’t find a job that requires perfection. You’re never going to get it, either. This isn't a job where you have a pilot sitting in a $100 million jet that took hundreds of engineers years to design. What’s the acceptable amount of errors a cop can make before they’re fired? The errors they make seem so personal, and people are outraged because they know how they’d feel if it happened to them, but this idea where perfection (or even close to it) is expected is unachievable.

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